I wasn’t looking for love.
Not then.
Not at the beginning of a new life in BTech, when everything felt so loud and unfamiliar.
But then… there she was.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYL7PNB1DdM
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HGyy66bOT
Her eyes weren’t just eyes — they were answers I hadn’t known I was asking for. The way she carried herself, unaware of the spell she cast…
She wasn’t trying to be seen. That’s probably why I couldn’t look away.
And then — something close to a miracle.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdS9ch4f3kD
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVKvfqdE0j
Our English teacher split the class into boy-girl pairs for an icebreaker — apparently to help us “communicate better”.
A task I would’ve laughed at on any other day. But that day, I whispered a prayer.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaU7FFsP1Ch
And somehow… the universe whispered back.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvOwDAiCVa
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXGRVrfVAB
But she broke the silence first.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSy6cbHObU
Anime. Books. Songs.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJv8bEDbUz
She read stories I loved.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7fdmZW7Gx
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFLWU29SMo
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAPLcsHr3u
Time blurred. The bell rang.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqsWDSFt1XR
And just like that — it ended.
And we never spoke again.
But something strange kept happening — our buses, parked side by side every day. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe a second chance, parked beside me daily.
Still… I said nothing. Because I was afraid.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdUtdIakmu
Afraid of saying too much.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TqG8giD2N
Afraid of being misunderstood.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoMFZZ5Ouu
Afraid of being too much for someone who never asked for me in the first place.
I never even knew her real name. Not then. But I gave her one — quietly, in my own head.
Seren.
It means "star" in a language I don't speak, but somehow understood.
Because that’s what she felt like.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIESsooohE5
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg44bAGsJqK
Not burning bright — just being.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgG2bcbOcH
A kind of calm I wanted to orbit.
She never knew, of course. She never knew she was Seren to me.
I told myself — four years is a long time. I’ll talk to her again. When the time is right. But fate isn’t always patient.
In amidst of all, one day, she changed her branch.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghSUk9kt06
Moved classes.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeHBQxty6N
Moved… away.675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhk1en6XOX
And I was left wondering…
I stood there, not broken — but almost.
“How foolish of me,” I thought.
Waiting for the right time, without ever trying to make it right.
So now I ask— Will our paths cross again?675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjl3RZ07b7n
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,675Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJzFkZOVkjw
and never found the courage to tell her why?
and then Add to home screen.